Conflicts of Interest and Your Physician: Psychological Processes That Cause Unexpected Changes in BehaviorJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 40 Số 3 - Trang 482-487 - 2012
Sunita Sah
The medical profession is under a state of increasing scrutiny. Recent high profile scandals regarding substantial industry payments to physicians, surgeons, and medical researchers have raised serious concerns over conflicts of interest. Amidst this background, the public, physicians, and policymakers alike appear to make the same assumption regarding conflicts of interest; that doctors w...... hiện toàn bộ
Integrating Law and Social EpidemiologyJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 30 Số 4 - Trang 510-521 - 2002
Scott Burris, Ichiro Kawachi, Austin Sarat
Social epidemiology has made a powerful case that health determined not just by individual-level factors such as our genetic make-up, access to medical services, or lifestyle choices, but also by social conditions, including the economy, law, and culture. Indeed, at the level of populations, evidence suggests that these “structural” factors are thepredominantinfl...... hiện toàn bộ
IsInclusiveEducation a Human Right?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 41 Số 4 - Trang 754-767 - 2013
John‐Stewart Gordon
The widespread view — proclaimed by proponents of disability studies, some disability federations, and many disabled people — that there is a human right to inclusive education, was eventually substantiated by international law with the UN Disability Convention (CRPD) in 2006. One of the most discussed issues in disability studies concerns the CRPD; the contributions are legion. Surprising...... hiện toàn bộ
Beyond the Cold Hit: Measuring the Impact of the National DNA Data Bank on Public Safety at the City and County LevelJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 38 Số 2 - Trang 396-411 - 2010
Matthew Gabriel, Cherisse Boland, Cydne L. Holt
Criminalistics laboratories routinely provide cold hits in police investigations by comparing DNA profiles from crime scenes to offenders residing in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). Forensic DNA analysis is often glamorized in popular culture, where the perpetrators are identified and crimes solved within a single television episode. In reality forensic DNA hits can identify perpetr...... hiện toàn bộ
Managing Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research: Analysis and RecommendationsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 36 Số 2 - Trang 219-248 - 2008
Susan M. Wolf, Frances Lawrenz, Charles A. Nelson, Jeffrey Kahn, Mildred K. Cho, Ellen Wright Clayton, Joel G. Fletcher, Michael Georgieff, Dale E. Hammerschmidt, Kathy Hudson, Judy Illes, Vivek Kapur, Moira A. Keane, Barbara A. Koenig, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Elizabeth G. McFarland, Jordan Paradise, Lisa S. Parker, Sharon F. Terry, Brian G. Van Ness, Benjamin S. Wilfond
Researchers, institutional review boards (IRBs), participants in human subjects research, and their families face an important but largely neglected problem — how should incidental findings (IFs) be managed in human subjects research. If researchers unexpectedly stumble upon information of potential health or reproductive significance, should they seek expert evaluation, contact the partic...... hiện toàn bộ
Medical Tourism's Impact on Health Care Equity and Access in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Making the Case for RegulationJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 41 Số 1 - Trang 286-300 - 2013
Y.Y. Brandon Chen, Colleen M. Flood
Travelling internationally to acquire medical treatments otherwise unavailable or inaccessible in one’s home country is not a novel concept. Conventionally, such medical travel largely entailed patients from developed countries or wealthy patients from the developing world seeking care in Western facilities like the Mayo Clinic in the U.S. and myriad private clinics along Harley Street in ...... hiện toàn bộ
Physicians under the Influence: Social Psychology and Industry Marketing StrategiesJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 41 Số 3 - Trang 665-672 - 2013
Sunita Sah, Adriane Fugh‐Berman
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.– Leonardo da VinciPhysicians often believe that a conscious commitment to ethical behavior and professionalism will protect them from industry influence. Despite increasing concern over the extent of physician-industry relationships, physicians usua...... hiện toàn bộ
Lessons Learned from the Expansion of Naloxone Access in Massachusetts and North CarolinaJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 43 Số S1 - Trang 19-22 - 2015
Corey S. Davis, Alexander Y. Walley, Colleen Bridger
States are rapidly modifying law and policy to increase access to the opioid antidote naloxone, and the provision of naloxone rescue kits (NRK) for use in the event of overdose is becoming increasingly common. As of late 2014 the majority of states had passed laws increasing naloxone access, and nearly as many have modified emergency responder scope of practice protocols to permit Emergenc...... hiện toàn bộ
Rethinking the Meaning of Public HealthJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics - Tập 30 Số 2 - Trang 144-149 - 2002
Mark A. Rothstein
Public health is a dynamic field. Outbreaks of new diseases, as well as changing patterns of population growth, economic development, and lifestyle trends all may threaten public health and thus demand a public health response. As the practice of public health evolves, there is an ongoing need to reassess its scientific, ethical, legal, and social underpinnings. Such a reappraisal must con...... hiện toàn bộ